About Beth Taylor
Beth Taylor has been a senior editor for Super Lawyers since 2003, and has won dozens of awards for headline-writing and editing throughout her career. Previously, she was an editor and covered courts for The Orlando Sentinel. She also worked for go2net and KIRO-TV in Seattle, where she wrote for and edited their websites. In addition, Beth edited The Kitsap Business Journal and Media Inc. Beth has written travel books, including Around Seattle With Kids for Fodor’s and Seattle Day By Day for Frommer’s, and online travel guides for Google. Her travel writing has appeared in publications including the Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle. Beth has a B.A. in communications/journalism and a master’s degree in political science.
Articles written by Beth Taylor
Legal Community Mourns the Passing of Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte
The Tallahassee lawyer’s legacy includes service as president of the ABA and of FSU, and as dean of FSU College of LawFlorida lost a true legal icon with the May 20 passing of Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte, 85, who served as president of the ABA in 1991-1992. D’Alemberte was also president of Florida State University from 1994 to 2003, and dean of FSU College of Law from 1984 to 1989. “I’ve known Sandy for the last 50 years of his life,” Sen. Bob Graham says. “He was a man who brought excellence to whatever undertaking was his day’s work. When we were both young legislators and the state was …
The Public Defender Bug
Why 19 years in the PD’s office didn’t burn out Lauri BrennerAs a kid, Lauri Brenner loved hanging out with her father, Bob, a prominent personal injury attorney, as he worked cases. She even liked visiting clients with him in the hospital. “I would wait in the shadows,” she recalls. “I basically planned on becoming a lawyer since fifth grade. Not that I knew what it meant to be a lawyer other than, you know, I liked my dad’s office building. He’d drive me in the summer to a site inspection and we would have hard hats on. ... I just thought the …
Custody Clarification
Cleveland family law attorney Andrew Zashin gets a 6th Circuit ruling that brings consistency to cases involving vulnerable childrenAlthough the 6th Circuit Court denied family law attorney Andrew Zashin’s appeal in a Hague Convention custody case, the court’s October ruling clarified case law for future Hague matters, and Taglieri v. Monasky may be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Just getting an en banc hearing by a full circuit court was an accomplishment. “This is only the second en banc Hague Case ever heard before a circuit court of appeals,” says Zashin, co-managing partner at Zashin & Rich. “So …
John Kenney on Writing Songs
The Oklahoma City litigator has a way with wordsJohn Kenney knows how to speak to juries—and country music fans, too. The intellectual property attorney, who practices law at McAfee & Taft, talks about how he got started writing songs, and discusses the similarities between working a story into a song and telling the storyline of a case in a compelling way. https://youtu.be/vRTwBk_bwac Kenney's story is featured in the 2018 edition of Oklahoma Super Lawyers magazine. "I take the idea—it may be funny, it may be serious, it …
Mark Lanier’s Fascination With Trains
The Houston attorney has a narrow-gauge railroad surrounding his propertyLitigator Mark Lanier has many talents, including a strong work ethic, natural connection with juries, tech savvy, deep faith and a photographic memory. Lanier, who practices plaintiff’s law—class action/mass torts and personal injury—also happens to be a big-time train buff. He talks about the half-scale, narrow-gauge train that runs around his 40-acre property, in homage to his dad, who worked for the Texas & Pacific Railroad. https://youtu.be/KBFt8YibrcI Lanier's story was …
VW Settlement Money Earmarked to Battle Climate Change
The $1.4 billion comes from a $14.7 billion payout negotiated in 2016 by San Francisco’s Elizabeth CabraserA coalition of 17 states recently pledged to spend $1.4 billion toward fighting climate change. The money comes from a $14.7 billion settlement with Volkswagen, negotiated in 2016 by San Francisco plaintiff’s class action attorney Elizabeth Cabraser. The car manufacturer was accused by the Environmental Protection Agency of programming about 480,000 diesel-powered cars so that they seemed to perform better on emissions tests than they actually did. Cabraser handled the delicate negotiations …
Houston’s Mark Lanier Wins $4.7 Billion Verdict in Talcum Case
The largest jury award in the U.S. this year went against Johnson & JohnsonIn the largest jury award in the U.S. this year, a St. Louis jury on July 12 awarded $4.14 billion in punitive damages, plus $550 million in compensatory damages, to nearly two dozen women and their families who claimed that Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder caused ovarian cancer. Houston personal injury attorney Mark Lanier, with The Lanier Law Firm, was the lead attorney for the plaintiffs. He argued during the six-week trial that Johnson & Johnson talcum powder contains asbestos, …
Dale Minami’s Most Significant Case
He defended a Japanese-American who refused to report for internmentDale Minami with Fred Korematsu Plaintiff’s personal injury attorney Dale Minami, with Minami Tamaki in San Francisco, talks about his landmark case that overturned a conviction for Japanese-American citizen Fred Korematsu, who defied Executive Order 9066 by refusing to report for internment; his conviction was upheld in 1944 by the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1983, Minami got that conviction vacated by U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel. An excerpt from Pate’s opinion: “As a legal …
Custody Battle
Family law attorney Andrew Zashin asks the 6th Circuit to bring consistency to cases involving vulnerable childrenOn June 13, Cleveland family law attorney Andrew Zashin drove to Cincinnati for a rare event: an en banc hearing by the 6th Circuit Court in a Hague Convention case. It was the second-ever Hague Convention-related hearing by a full circuit court in the U.S., and the first-ever en banc circuit court hearing on the issue of habitual residence—or what country a child at the center of a custody battle belongs in. “This is an international treaty that has not been well vetted by our courts. The …
Ohio Fertility Clinic Hit With Lawsuits Over Destroyed Embryos
Storage tank alarm did not warn of rising temperatureOn March 3-4, a rise in temperature in a fertility clinic storage tank run by Cleveland’s University Hospitals destroyed more than 4,000 frozen eggs and embryos. Nearly 1,000 people were affected, and many of them are filing individual and class actions against the hospital. “The victims of this tragedy are devastated,” says Tom Merriman, a personal injury attorney with Landskroner Grieco Merriman in Cleveland. “The [in vitro fertilization] process is extremely difficult for women and …
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